What a fucktard, as Robert Corr has already noted, apropos of Glover’s being a key support team-member for a long succession of Labor leader-losers. But even leaving aside the man’s track record, there is plenty to criticise just in his opening line today:

Labor needs a new generation of intellectuals.

Hard to argue with that. But where are they to come from? The universities, that Labor spent its last eight years in power fucking-over? Well, no – but not for that reason. People who have been to university are inherently unlikely to “get” the outer-suburban mortgage belt, because the former apparently spend almost all their time in back-street Fitzroy pubs, instead of working for a living. And by virtue of one of those rules that apply only in the inner-city (those Jews and other cosmopolitan elites!), their hefty bar-tabs can be settled just by the alchemical transformation of pure philosophy.

Meanwhile out in the aspirational burbs, a generation that lives much more by its wit/s awaits its calling as Labor’s 2007 electoral salvation. Knowing nothing except the tabloid TV and print media they are fed, they make Pauline Hanson look sophisticated – but never mind, as long as they are “fresh, relevant and appealing”. Fortunately, the McMansions they build and live in at least allow them to dissemble the difference between the Upper House and the Lower House – the Upper House is where you sleep and dream of your retirement (= high property prices), while the Lower House is where you eat and vacantly muse about your retirement (= high property prices).